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September 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock and bond mutual funds took in $11.3 billion in new assets in August.

September 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US employers carried out 1,258 mass layoffs in August 2003 affecting 133,839 workers, a significant decrease from the month before, according to the...

September 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morningstar Inc's foreign stock mutual fund category is being split up into five new categories.

September 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Associates has pulled back the curtain on the State Street Investor Confidence Index tracking the buying patterns of higher-risk investments by...

September 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US job market watchers finally got a positive sign from the government's weekly unemployment claims data with a 29,000 claims drop last week...

September 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual funds investors continued to flee fixed income in August with a $15.3-billion outflow while racing to the comparative safe haven of equities,...

September 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal Reserve interest-rate cutters may have sore shoulders from their recent axe wielding to drive short-term rates to a 45-year-low, but Tuesday they...

September 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Preliminary results show the MSCI Hedge Fund Composite Index handily beat out its July showing with a 1% August return.

September 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants are finding better news in their 401(k) statements, but new participants may be getting the wrong message.

September 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Emerging Markets led the way to the CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index's 0.76% August gain.

September 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Van Global Hedge Fund Index posted a 1.7% net gain in August, according to Van Hedge Fund Advisors International.

September 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite losses in the equity markets, asset diversification and continuing contributions show 401(k) participants have not given up on long-term approaches in their...

September 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An already bad jobless picture got even worse last week as the queue for filing initial unemployment benefit claims was the longest its...

September 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants continued to shift money into equity investments last month, according to the results of the Hewitt 401(k) Index.

September 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For the sixth month in a row, the Hennessee Hedge Fund Index produced a positive return, up 1.76% in August.

September 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Equity market gains were not enough to overcome an increase in liabilities, as the pension asset/liability gap widened slightly in August.

September 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A day after the government reported an unexpected leap in first-time unemployment claims, officials announced that US employers slashed a whopping 93,000 jobs...

September 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Standard & Poor's (S&P) Hedge Fund Index turned in another positive performance in August, rising 0.51% after a 0.34% return in July.

September 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just as economists were hoping the US job market was finally beginning to firm up, the latest government report on first-time jobless benefit...

September 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets in exchange-traded funds (ETF) fell to $117.06 billion in July from $121.57 billion the previous month.